EPISODE INFO
HOST: Paul Hattis & John McDonough
GUEST: Audrey Morse Gasteier, executive director of the Massachusetts Health Connector
OPEN ENROLLMENT THROUGH the state health care marketplace begins on November 1, and hundreds of thousands of people are staring down bracing changes to their health care costs. Notices are going out all across the Commonwealth warning residents about rising premiums if pandemic era tax credits are left to expire at the end of the year – the issue at the heart of the government shutdown.
“We don’t have the luxury of planning for a hypothetical open enrollment, or the hope or the chance of open enrollment” that looks like prior years, said Audrey Morse Gasteier, executive director of the Massachusetts Health Connector, on The Codcast. “We have to deal with the reality in front of us.”
This week, on the monthly Health or Consequences episode of The Codcast, Gasteier joined John McDonough of the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Paul Hattis of the Lown Institute to discuss the looming deadline…